I sit in church on Sunday morning and I look around at those in attendance, wondering why they are there. Not that it is any of my business, but I am curious as to what motivates people in general. I am sure that some of the people are there because of a crisis in their … Read more
As a profession, we do not want medical doctors adjusting vertebral subluxations but we want to treat disease. v15n3
The strength and greatness of chiropractic is and always has been in the chiropractor’s realization of his or her own limitations. When chiropractors cease to realize their weakness and dependency upon the innate intelligence of the body to accomplish their objective, chiropractic will cease to be great. v15n3
The philosophical conflict between medicine and chiropractic can be summed up simply: Medicine believes that disease causes a lack of health. Chiropractic believes that a lack of health causes disease. Consequently, medicine treats disease while chiropractic addresses one of the causes for a lack of health. Medicine and chiropractic are going in opposite directions. An … Read more
Our profession continues to vacillate between attacking the medical establishment and craving acceptance from it. I think both extremes have caused many of our profession’s present problems. D.D. wanted acceptance from the community and tried to get it by attacking medicine. In this manner, chiropractic received a certain degree of acceptance but only as a … Read more
Where does the objective straight chiropractic philosophy begin and end? How can a chiropractor be sure that when he is explaining something to a practice member, he is within the boundaries of straight chiropractic? We have discussed this issue before but since it came up recently on the internet, I thought I would give it … Read more
In the past I have made clear my disdain for the term “subluxation-based chiropractic.” I have never liked it because I feel that any description with only “subluxation” in it is inadequate. The correction of subluxation is the means to an end. Unless you describe the means and the end, you have inadequately described your … Read more
Attacking medicine and its practices is a very important issue in chiropractic and entertains a long history. Many of D.D.’s earliest advertisements were attacks on medicine and the procedures of medical doctors. The objective straight chiropractor has moved away from this kind of activity in an effort to distance the profession from the idea that … Read more
As the practice of medicine and the practice of chiropractic become more similar, the profession is either going to lose its identity or be forced to more clearly define itself. Chiropractors are performing more and more medical procedures and medical doctors are incorporating more drugless procedures ordinarily associated with alternative approaches like therapeutic chiropractic. The … Read more
If you are going to practice objective straight chiropractic, you are paying for an education you do not need. If you are going to practice therapeutic chiropractic, you are paying for an education you do not get. v15n1